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“There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish or others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no right or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.”

Way Different Today Interest Racism Majority Equality Odd Assumption Interfere Erratic Amish

Author:Warren E. Burger

“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.”

Doe Ends Lost Interest Loses Race Feminism Racism Gender Opposition Sexism Patriarchy Race And Gender

Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain.”

War Language Interest Imagination Poverty Violence Racism Labor Prison Environmental Manifestation Torture Capitalist Sensibility Misogyny Capital Punishment

Author:Lawrence Joseph

“Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.”

Moving Literature Black Interest Common Attention Racism Competition Males Black Women Common Interests

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.”

Politics Interest Racism Negative Western Colonialism Exploitation Imperialism Isms

Author:Malcolm X

“If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.”

People Ifs Needs Interest Economic Racism Vote Nonviolence Need A Change

Author:Jesse Jackson